28 USC § 1692 - Process and orders affecting property in different districts

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title: "28 USC § 1692 - Process and orders affecting property in different districts"
title_number: 28
title_name: "JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1692"
section_name: "Process and orders affecting property in different districts"
chapter_number: 113
chapter_name: "PROCESS"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "PROCEDURE"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)"
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# § 1692. Process and orders affecting property in different districts

In proceedings in a district court where a receiver is appointed for property, real, personal, or mixed, situated in different districts, process may issue and be executed in any such district as if the property lay wholly within one district, but orders affecting the property shall be entered of record in each of such districts.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 945.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 117 (, ).

Provisions of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., as to jurisdiction and control of a receiver of property in several districts are the basis of .

For explanation of revision of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., and its extension to include property, not only in the same judicial circuit, but in any judicial circuit. (See reviser’s note under .)

Changes were made in phraseology.